"In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives."

-- Bryan Fuller

#Kings Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.”
“I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.”
“You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.”
“The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.”
“When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.”

Source : Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”
“There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.”
“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.”
“Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.”

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